Proxy Autoconfiguration for clients

• Ok now you've got a working proxy server how do you make your clients use it?

• WCCP?

• Why not?

• Manual client configuration - proxyclientconfigure.htm

• proxy-autconfig files

• What do they do?

• What do they look like?

    //simple UO autoconfig (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu) 01/02/2000
  function FindProxyForURL (url,host)
  {
  
   //uowireless requests don't get retrieved through proxy
      if (shExpMatch(host,"uowireless.uoregon.edu"))
  	 return "DIRECT";
  
  	 //local  items don't get retrieved through proxy
  	 if (shExpMatch(host,"*.uoregon.edu"))
  	 return "DIRECT";
  	 //localhost items don't get retrieved through proxy
          if (isInNet(host, "127.0.0.1", "255.255.255.255"))
                  return "DIRECT";
  		// retrieve everything else first through proxy(162.23) then proxy2(162.33) then direct
  		return "PROXY 128.223.162.23:3128; PROXY 128.223.162.33:3128; DIRECT";
  }
  

• Using WPAD to pick up browsers automatically

• Create a hostname wpad.yourdomain

• Run a webserver there with a proxy autconfig file with the filename being wpad.dat

• add the

  application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig pac
application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig dat

  mime types to the mime.types file.

• Restart apache

• done, you can now suck in all the clients run internet explorer